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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Not what you meant, but I never could understand the large number of public domain ebooks available on sites like Amazon. Search for the Kindle version of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," for example. There are 43 PAGES of results!
Who reads those? In most cases, no one, I bet. Why does Amazon waste the bandwidth?
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1) Lazy greed. People use the ease of KDP and the listing costs nothing.
2) Many people will buy from Amazon and never know about Gutenberg.
3) Many that know about Gutenberg think a 99c version from Amazon will be better.
4) Amazon has no human curation. They use automated tools that barely check more than formatting.
5) A bigger catalogue looks better and it costs Amazon nearly nothing per book. A mobile/cell delivery costs more, but that's a money-making sale.
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I've bought (sometimes "free") paper and ebooks and wondered why anyone would read them. I'm not giving titles. I do read most genres except "literary critic winners", erotic, horror or sport.